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Retired Navy Lt. Paul Muzychenko of, Sparks, Nev., a World War II veteran of the Battle of Midway, was helped to his seat before a 70th-anniversary ceremony marking the battle at the U.S. Navy Memorial in Washington Monday.

“There is nothing which for my part I like better, Cephalus, than conversing with aged men; for I regard them as travelers who have gone a journey which I too may have to go, and of whom I ought to enquire, whether the way is smooth and easy, or rugged and difficult. And this is a question which I should like to ask of you who have arrived at that time which the poets call the ‘threshold of old age’ —Is life harder towards the end, or what report do you give of it?” -Socrates, Plato’s Republic.

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